How to Jailbreak iPhone 4S & iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1 with Absinthe

The newly released and highly anticipated Absinthe A5 jailbreak is the first public jailbreak for iPhone 4S users and the first jailbreak for iPad 2 with iOS 5. If you’ve been waiting for an untethered jailbreak for either device with iOS 5, this is it, and it’s very easy to use. Absinthe is compatible with iPhone 4S or iPad 2 running the following iOS builds:

Jailbreak iPhone 4S or iPad 2 on iOS 5 using Absinthe

Launch Absinthe and click on “Jailbreak” and let the device sit and run the jailbreak, this may take a while

When the jailbreak is finished, you’ll see an Absinthe icon on the home screen, tap on that to load the Greenpois0n site and download Cydia

The device is now jailbroken. This is a fully untethered jailbreak, meaning you can reboot at will without the need for boot assistance from an application or computer.

Troubleshooting: If you see an “Error establishing a database connection” error during the process, just wait it out and try again, or start a VPN tunnel through Settings > Network > VPN > ON (via @pod2g). The Absinthe Greenpois0n servers are swamped by the initial demand but things should even out shortly.

Interesting. Got the database connect error after clicking the Absinthe icon. Read this and found that the VPN is preconfigured. Turned it on, it appeared like it crashed (after a retry or two) and then I got Cydia replacing the Absinthe icon.

-If the Absinthe webclip shows “Error establishing a database connection”, please go to Settings, turn on VPN and wait instead. Toggle VPN only AFTER Absinthe says it’s done, or it will not work. VPN SHOULD error and then reboot soon. If it does not, rerun Absinthe!

-If you get a strange problem, we advise you to restore your iPhone with iTunes, if you can (i.e. if you’re not on 5.0 waiting for an eventual 4S unlock).

Apparently not- I tried this also on a PPC G5. Like most contemporary OSX software, the Absinthe JB is incompatible. That’s why I mostly run Linux on these powerful but orphaned platforms. If you have no other option than using your PPC for the jailbreak, consider installing Linux now, so you’ll be ready to run Absinthe for Linux when it is released “soon”.

thanks so much for this jailbreak!! got an iPad 2 for christmas, and was sad i couldn’t jailbreak it…then saw pod2g’s posts on twitter, lots of help! i had to go to the vpn and it rebooted and cydia was there. AWESOME JOB GUYS

I have a IPhone 4S Which is Not Carrier Unlocked, It is a UK Model so its not AT&T but Is Vodafone Locked, I don’t have the Sim for it and I get the error Please Insert a Valid Sim. If I try to Jailbreak it using GreenPoison’s Absinthe it is Stuck on Beginning Jailbreak,This may take a while from the past 15 mins, any suggestions??

for all of you having problems with no reboot after vpn error, try this:

download the updated version of absinthe
restore your ipad so that it completely takes away the jailbreak that you just tried.
jailbreak your ipad again using the new version of absinthe.
run the app. you will not need to go to the vpn setting anymore.

I ran Abstinthe, plugged my phone in and clicked JailBreak. But the bar hasn’t moved in maybe over an hour. It says “Please wait, This may take some time” but my buddy had his done withing 20 mins tops.
Any advice ???
Cheers

With yesterday ‘s version I tried the VPN option with no success and now it disappeared , no jailbreak VPN nor absinthe and I still get the database error launching absinthe. Thanks to anyone to post the VPN config
L2tp or Pptp, server , account…

I’m guessing the server is swamped, so somewhere behind the scenes the last stage of the jailbreak is failing. But no one seems to be able to say for sure, and you hear a million people saying “Just turn the VPN on!” at which point you get the “A configuration error occurred” message, and nothing happens.

for everyone who is having the issue with absinth unexpectingly stopping after it reboots and say delivering payload keep your screen from going black but dont unlock it just move the slider back and forth a little bit to keep it from going black thats what I did with my iphone and it worked. Absinth crashed on me 4 times before i tried this.

I don’t know if this has happened to anyone, but on the last step where it asks you to press the jailbreak icon (absinthe icon) on my iPhone 4S to complete the jailbreak, I clicked on it, it looked like things were working, and when everything was done and I swiped to unlock my phone, all of the native normally undelete-able apps are all gone and I don’t know what to do.

Messages app, Phone app, Email app, Safari, Pictures, App Store, Clock, Newstand etc., are all gone. I can still receive texts, but there’s no icon showing when I do receive one.

For example, I can’t view a text because it says “Unsupported URL — This URL wasn’t loaded: sms:/open?address=%2B16503804039”.

So currently I can’t text, make calls, go on Safari, view my pictures, or access the app store through my phone. But when I connect my phone to my computer (Windows 7) all of my pictures and videos are still there.

I also made sure to press “back up” before doing all of this, but I don’t know where to find the .ipsw when trying to restore it now to see if it does anything. I can only find the backup folder under User/AppData/Roaming/Apple Computer/MobileSync/Backup/86525d25be49909b69661f1a5d274b462dbf072f and I don’t know what to do with it.

I hope someone can take the time to help me out. I’d really appreciate any help I could get! I hope I’m not the only one with this problem.

Ive gotten to the final stage on my iPhone to where you tap the Absinthe icon but it stays at the “ABSINTHE is setting up, please stand-by” for several hours now. I tried the VPN tactic and rebooted several times but it still won’t load. Thanks in advance for help.

if all else fails, try restoring your ipsw through itunes. Use SHIFT+Restore option if you have the ipsw saved in your mac/pc. set it up as as a new device and run the jailbreak. but instead of clicking on the absinthe icon, go to settings and turn vpn on. it should reboot after the error. that’s what worked for me.

I JB my iPad 2 (5.0.1, 9A405) last night and this morning none of my iTunes music is playing. I’ve tried toggling the “iTunes Match” button to no avail. Any suggestions aside from deleting and importing all my music again?

anyone know why the absinthe program won’t open on ios mac? it immediately crashes upon opening. when using windows the program opens but it doesn’t recognize the device and isn’t italicized. What am i doing wrong?

[…] If you already are jailbroken with the Abinsthe utility, v0.3 offers no advantages to you and does not need to be run again. If this is the first time you’ve run the tool, follow our guide on how to jailbreak iPhone 4S or iPad 2 with Absinthe. […]

I have an iPhone 4S 64GB on O2 and this jailbreak (absinthe v0.3) worked fine on my mac running osx lion without any major problems other than a few white icons which disappeared immediately after installing sbsettings. this is simply the easiest jailbreak yet and you don’t even have to put the iPhone into recovery mode. Fantastic work guys and as always your hard work is greatly appreciated.

Each time I try to do the Jailbreak thing on the Absinthe app it says the URL could not be displayed or found and I have a good internet connection . Also I try VPN and it says A Configuration Error Occured .

[…] iOS 5 jailbreakers. Older Mac users should be pleased the new Abinsthe version supports them, and instructions to jailbreak the iPhone 4S or iPad 2 with iOS 5.0.1 remain the same regardless of device or host operating […]

I’ve jailbroken my iPad 2 iOS 5 no problem and everything is working fine except I can’t get any sliders to appear, the color and text will sometimes change but the sliding icon will not, this has been bugging me for a few days, any advice??

heey , after i used Absinthe jailbreak it gave me the icon and after awhile i played around with my iPad 2 , it automatically restarted 2 times, i have no internet connection but the Absinthe icon got replaced with the Cydia icon. Is that a bad thing or a good thing? I also want to know if in the future will my ipad keep restarting by itself.

[…] you haven’t jailbroken yet, backup the iPhone and then proceed with Absinthe for iPhone 4S on iOS 5.0.1 or Redsn0w for iOS 5.0.1 on other iPhones and iPods. Dreamboard is then found as a free download in […]

I keep getting the error “You must run app as Administrator” when opening absinthe. I have right-clicked and run as Admin, no luck. Went to properties and set to run as Admin, no luck. Set Compatibility Mode to XP w/ run as Admin, no luck. Any Advice??

If you are getting Run App as Administrator and are using Windows 7 make sure Under Computer Management that the Administrator user is not Disabled (This happens by default a lot), and then log in as Administrator rather than another user. This worked for me.

Ran the jailbreak, everything worked fine. Followed the step to click Jailbreak on my phone and it took me to an Absinthe app. App opened but when I clicked jailbreak it says “Absinthe could not be opened. The error was The URL can’t be shown.” So I followed the next step and went in my settings to turn the VPN on and it gives me an error of “A configuration error occurred.” Can someone please help?!

i installed absinthe iOS 5.01. for my 4s worked fine turned iphone off and back on and the cydia app is now gone i cant re-install absinthe its saying phone already jail broken i cant re-boot or anything can someone please help cheers guys

Hi, i just jailbroke my iPhone 4s on ios 5.0.1 . I’m happy with the jailbreak but noticed an issue with the music app. When I click on a song, it plays another song. Some songs will not enen play. Please help?! Thanks.

Hi in my iPad 2 there are 4 pages containing icons I can open only fst page icons which contains settings , FaceTime, photos, videos .
But I canto en remaining three pages icons containing all games music Facebook etc.. If I click on that icons it just blinks and remains the same pls tell me how to recover my prob in my iPad 2 . My iPad company is apple. Pls help me

When i plug in my White Sprint Iphone 4s. It has the newest sysytem and i have the newest system of jailbreak. It says plug in your 4s or ipad 2 and when i plug in my phone it says sorry we dont support this or we cant do this? Um.. what does that mean..?

are you guys stupid, as soon as absinthe 2.0.1 for 4s/4/3GS/touch 3 and 4 can all be jailbroke with the newley released absinthe today at the hack convention in Amsterdam, in itunes, back up your iphone, do a full reset on your phone to make the jailbreak g faster, plug it in, make sure you updated to 5.1.1, then it will detect your iphone, hit jailbreak, under 5 minutes your iPhone will be jailbroken, then restore your back up in itunes!!

Ran the jailbreak, everything worked fine. Followed the step to click Jailbreak on my ipad2 and it took me to an Absinthe app. App opened but when I clicked jailbreak it says “Absinthe could not be opened.
The error was The URL can’t be shown.” So I followed the next step and went in my settings to turn the VPN on and it gives me an error of “A configuration error occurred.”
Can someone please help?!
restored the ipad and again the same ……..

Now… I was wondering why I cannot do a jailbreak?
I don’t have anything on my iPhone and I did the iTunes restore, just in case.

Whenever I plug it to the absinthe or redsn0w (doesnt really matter) it sort of starts… then before “rebooting” it shows the apple and black screen… and I get my locked screen on the phone with “Activation Required”. So it screwes my X-Sim and asks for activation again…

Then when it requires a reboot, it doesnt do anything. I reboot it manually and process continues… then stops and restore some things and say try again…

I NEED HELP PLEASE :(
I jailbreaked my iPad 2, it was working fine, then i downloaded PDAnet from cydia, restarted my springboard then my iPad jus stopped working :( :( its now always on the apple logo, and i can’t even shut it down, i tried connecting it to iTunes, it dosnt appear, what should i do??? i can’t repair it on warranty cuz its jailbroken.. what should i do? :( :( :(:(

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